Be brief, not fancy

I was wandering around the Internet reading select stuff - I won't point ot what it was, simply because I don't want to single anyone out, but... I had been feeling a bit unhappy about my writing, thinking that I needed to improve it, to make my writing better. I'm not exactly a very colorful writer, you know? I tend to write what I am thinking and not dress it up much with unneeded words or examples.

I had the thought that I was doing something wrong so I went looking at how others write online. I'm also not a very patient person. When I look for information I want just that - information. I don't want someone to write fancy flourish prose, I don't want to wade through stories about how something vaguely relates to what is being written about.

I would prefer to read 100 tight concise words than 750 meandering words that make me forget what I was reading about in the first place.